No one can remain even for a moment without activity, but usually actions that lead to complications and misery. Swami Paramananda explains what right action is and how it can solve our problems.
I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher. That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done.
-Swami Vivekananda